Chapter 89 - Scrambling for Treasures at Auction (II)

In order to protect the guests’ privacy, the voice was already processed when it came out of the box. Thus, the other bidders were astonished that there were actually two mysterious guys in Luo Jianqing’s box. Fo Zi was even more surprised when he heard Luo Jianqing calling out the bid for him. The latter sighed, “Fo Zi, now is the moment that I finally changed my mind – the Heavenly Will is still…fair. For instance, it endowed you with great wisdom.”

But it didn’t give you an equal amount of EQ!

Of course, Fo Zi knew what he meant though Luo Jianqing swallowed the rest of that sentence.

Not irritated at all, Fo Zi postured a Buddhism salute with calm and elegance, “Amitabha, please, Cultivator Luo, help me to bid.”

Luo Jianqing asked him, “May I know how much in maximum do you want to spend on this Buddhism Bead?”

Fo Zi pondered for a moment, “Three hundred thousand.”

Luo Jianqing, “…” Who on earth gave you the confidence to bid a straight-forward two hundred thousand at the very beginning?!

The bid offered by Luo Jianqing silenced the auction house. Everyone was shocked by the extravagance of the mysterious man in the box. However, Luo Jianqing didn’t dare to lower his guard. Looking down from the window at Li Xiuchen who was sitting in the hall, Luo Jianqing squinted.

As an inner-door disciple of Tai Hua Mountain, Li Xiuchen’s monthly salary was only five hundred Spiritual Stones, but that was certainly not what he got in total. Although in this life Luo Jianqing snatched lots of opportunities from Li Xiuchen, the latter still came out of Liu Yan Valley with hundreds of Yan Fruit, plus what he reaped from the Wan Shou Mountain, as Luo Jianqing estimated, Li Xiuchen at least owned hundreds of thousands of Spiritual Stones.

The Demon Beasts that he killed in the Wan Shou Mountian weren’t that profitable. What contributed the most for his wealth was the Yan Fruit.

A hundred Yan Fruits can even fetch a million Spiritual Bone in the auction house. Because of its rarity, Yan Fruit was an invaluable magic item for the cultivators of Fire-related Maneuvers. Li Xiuchen sold all of the Yan Fruits as soon as he got out of the Liu Yan Valley. Although he didn’t sell them in an auction, he still made a fortune.

According to the book, the second item that Li Xiuchen bid for was… the Buddhism Bead!

As Luo Jianqing expected, when everyone else gave it up, Li Xiuchen raised the bid card, “Two hundred and sixty thousand!”

Fo Zi wasn’t expecting that, “It is that cultivator again!”

Luo Jianqing called out with confidence, “Two hundred and eighty thousand.”

Li Xiuchen continued, “Two hundred and ninety thousand!”

Luo Jianqing said with a smile, “Three hundred thousand.”

Li Xiuchen hesitated. Obviously, his estimated maximum bid was three hundred thousand as well.

Luo Jianqing waited for Li Xiuchen’s decision calmly. ‘Now, give it up’, he thought, staring at him. Nonetheless, to Luo Jianqing’s surprise, Li Xiuchen called out the bid again, “Three hundred and ten thousand!”

Luo Jianqing was astonished.

How precious this Buddhism Bead was that it even made Li Xiuchen kept bidding?

Surely, Luo Jianqing had no idea what Li Xiuchen’s going to use this Buddhism Bead for. Seeking Immortality II only mentioned that Li Xiuchen got these items, nothing else. He knew the story about the Interspatial Ring because, at the end of the book, Li Xiuchen did find a sword that belonged to the same item set of the ring, making it possible to successfully collect the whole set in the future.

What about this Buddhism Bead?

Li Xiuchen might be the only one who knew what it truly was.

Sensing Li Xiuchen’s determination to get the item, Fo Zi said, “Cultivator Luo, it seems that Cultivator values this Buddhism Bead so much. We should probably stop bidding and let him have it.”

Recalling what Li Xiuchen had done, Luo Jianqing frowned and shook his head, “Fo Zi, I don’t think we can give it up this easily.” So he bided again, “Three hundred and fifty thousand!”

Hearing the bid was raised for forty thousand, Li Xiuchen shut up his mouth. He hesitated for a while then shouted out the bid again, “Three hundred sixty thousand!”

Luo Jianqing, “Four hundred thousand!”

Li Xiuchen, “Four hundred and ten thousand!”

Luo Jianqing smiled and sipped the tea. In a calm tone, he bid, “Five hundred thousand.”

Everyone fixed their eyes on the box located on the second floor. Fo Zi laughted and slightly shook his head. Luo Jianqing didn’t regret what he called out. The price was way too high. Fetching a total of five hundred thousand, the bead was now valued twice as much as the auctioneers hoped for! Immediately, Li Xiuchen gave it up. He could do nothing but kept glaring over Luo Jianqing’s box angrily.

When the Buddhism Bead was delivered to their box, Fo Zi paid for it before Luo Jianqing took out the Spiritual Stones from his Interspatial Ring. Confused, Luo Jianqing looked at Fo Zi and heard the latter explained, “Cultivator Luo, you bid the item in order to help me. It would be inappropriate to let you pay for it.”

Luo Jianqing smiled, “Well, I guess, I will not be the destined owner of this Buddhism Bead.”

“You want this bead? Then I shall give it to you as a gift, forging karma.”

Seeing Fo Zi about to give the Buddhism Bead to him for real, Luo Jianqing stopped him at once. Limpid eyes fixed on Fo Zi who was standing in front of him ethereally, Luo Jianqing sighed, “You are so much better than me in terms of Buddhism Destiny. This Buddhism Bead belongs to you of course, given that you’ve already paid for it.”

Luo Jianqing asked his friend when they sat down, “Fo Zi, do you really know what indeed this Buddhism Bead is?”

“Not really. Maybe it really is the heirloom of the Fourth Grand Master of Buddha Sect.”

Luo Jianqing laughed and shook his head slightly, “For sure, it once belonged to that Grand Master, but definitely not a magic item. This, actually, is a Buddhist Relic.”

Fo Zi was shocked by the truth. The calmness hanging on his face was finally broken. He stopped fiddling the bead at once. Not long after he realized what he really got, craziness filled his eyes. Luo Jianqing was astonished by Fo Zi’s anomaly. The monk stared at the bead obsessively as if he was looking at the one and only precious thing in his life.

After a long time, the glow of madness glittering in his eyes gradually faded.

Fo Zi lifted his head, “Cultivator Luo, before you told me, I didn’t realize that this is a Buddhist Relic at all. How did you… figure it out?”

When he asked Luo Jianqing the question, though Fo Zi tried his best to conceal his emotions, Luo Jianqing still managed to sense a wisp of nervousness in his voice.

He never saw Fo Zi acting like this. Pondering for a while, Luo Jianqing summoned a child from his Interspatial Ring.

When the delicate child revealed himself in the box, a light aroma of pill dispersed and fulfilled the box immediately. The lovely child frowned, and with his action, the aroma vanished at once, as mysterious as its presence.

Fo Zi stared at the child with astonishment. Luo Jianqing introduced the child to him, “This is… one of my Item Souls. His name is Qing Jun.”

No living creature can be stored in the Interspatial Ring. Moreover, Luo Jianqing couldn’t tell Fo Zi that Qing Jun was actually a Pill Soul of a Godlike Pill, so he had to make up an identity for Qing Jun. It was not that Luo Jianqing didn’t trust Fo Zi, but, because of the rarity of the Godlike Pill, once the words spread out, people would definitely take pains to wrest for it.

Fo Zi looked at Qing Jun in confusion, and then he heard the child spoke in a bleak voice, “Thousands of years ago, I served by my master’s side, and with him I saw what remained of the Fourth Grand Master of Buddha Sect. My master tried to take this Buddhist Relic from his skeleton. However, he was thwarted by the last wisp of Spiritual Sense of the Fourth Grand Master, who told my master that he would choose the owner of his relic, a destined one.”

Hearing Qing Jun’s words, Fo Zi was suddenly transfixed.